This business about the best Tannoys being the ones with the alnico magnets and pepper pot tweeters often gets mentioned, but is it really true?
When I compared my 1970s Berkeley’s (alnico/ pepper pot) with their predecessors in my system, the slim floorstanding Revolution 3s from around 2003, I found them to be remarkably similar in sound despite being entirely different in size and design.
The main sonic differences I detected were the size of scale and the sheer ease of the sound. In the end, it’s this sheer ease of sound that’s most pleasing to me.
A good analogy might be to say it’s like comparing a family Toyota with a Lexus.